Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Ian. 2775 AUC ~ 8 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Nearly 90 Roman-era artifacts seized in NW Turkey | Daily Sabah
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- Centuries-old graves found near Turkey’s ancient city Antandros | Daily Sabah
- Centuries-old inscription discovered near Istakhr ancient city – Tehran Times
- Hungry badger may have uncovered Roman coins in Spanish cave | Spain | The Guardian
- Israeli mines had ‘Start-Up Nation managers, engineers’ 3,000 years ago – The Jerusalem Post
- Syrian archaeological looting | Antiquities Trafficking serves as top funding source for Iranian proxies in Deir Ezzor • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
In Case You Missed It
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 09.01.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- DE RE PAKISTANA – Ephemeris
Public Facing Classics
- Find me a Greek or Roman text that isn’t pure filth | News | The Sunday Times
- There’s more to Sparta than martial valour and austerity | Aeon Essays
Fresh Bloggery
- Solon Says: Sue Bad Leaders of State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Familiar Places
- PaleoJudaica.com: Finkelstein, Essays on Biblical Historiography (Mohr Siebeck)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Laderman, Jewish Art in Late Antiquity (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Viezel, The Intention of the Torah and the Intention of Its Readers (Magnes Press, in Hebrew)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Divine Names on the Spot: Towards a Dynamic Approach of Divine Denominations in Greek and Semitic Contexts
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SYRIOS: Studying Urban Relationships and Identity over Ancient Syria
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Administrative: AWOL Anniversary
- Actually, The Destruction of Melos Only Seems Bad… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Het Onze Vader (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Turtle-eaters and Their Homes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Croy, Sequencing the Hebrew Bible (Sheffield Phoenix/SBL)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Kazen, Impurity and Purification in Early Judaism and the Jesus Tradition (SBL)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Words and Their Sounds
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Chalcis/Qinnasrin (Syrie): De l’âge du Bronze à l’époque mamelouke. Qinnasrin II
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Langage: Lectures d’Aristote
- Anger and Masks of Injury – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: From Sacred to Everyday: Common Wares and Amphorae from Chhim in the Sidon Hinterland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Christian Values
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Knowledge
- Platonic Despotism – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Objects from Piceni princely grave go on display
- Hannibal, de Rhône en Mozes – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Volume 6 of Italian Talmud translation published
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Along Hadrian’s Wall, ancient Rome’s temples, towers, and cults come to life
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Talmudic Encyclopedia is 75
- PaleoJudaica.com: Steinhardt artifacts at the Israel Museum
- Domitianus (16): Quintus Haterius Tychicus – Mainzer Beobachter
- Thick on A Winter’s Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- Can Music Help Your Latin? – Antigone
- Results of the 2021 Agios Sozomenos-Djirpoulos excavations
- New fragments from the Parthenon at the Acropolis Museum
- War of words – ‘ovation’ | The Past
- Soknopaiou Nesos – The Crocodile Cult Temple – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Disability and Infanticide in Ancient Greece
- How to Read Paintings: Venus by Diego Velázquez | by Christopher P Jones | Thinksheet | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
Spinning held an important place in ancient society, and no, we’re not talking about ancient exercise classes. A task for women and slaves, it was used to create clothes, ships sails, and ropes, and its products were integral to all parts of society. An unchanging art for centuries and seen across the globe, spinning was an important practice in the ancient world. This week Tristan is joined by Carey Fleiner to discuss spinning’s role in myths, the textiles it helped produce, and its importance in antiquity.
In part two of the New Year Q&A Liv answers more questions on what it’s like to study Classics/the ancient Mediterranean and what you might consider. She answers questions about Odysseus and Theseus, and provides examples of good translations of ancient Greek texts. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it’s fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I’m not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Fresh Youtubery
- How did Alexander the Great’s conquest impact the economy of the ancient world? – YouTube | History Marche
- Lingua Latina || Verba similia, variae significationes – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Training Like A Roman Gladiator | Ancient Workouts with Omar – YouTube | History
- Plato: the political Philosophy – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
- Maenads: The Terrifying Worshippers of Dionysus – YouTube | Classics in Color
- La logica di Aristotele – Gabriele Giannantoni – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
- Catullus 45 in Latin & English: Acmen Septimius suos amores – YouTube | David Amster
- The Battle Axe culture and Indo European Migrations – YouTube | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Catullus and Pop Music Ep.1: Attacca – YouTube | mytholotea
- AIA Iowa Society Talk: Rachel Meyers [11.15.21] – YouTube
- 14/12/21- Recherches en cours- Les Éoliens en Thrace – YouTube | Ecole française d’Athènes Ecole française d’Athènes
Book Reviews
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Along Hadrian’s Wall, ancient Rome’s temples, towers, and cults come to life
- BROKEN HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF FRAGMENTS OF THE PARTHENON
- Thucydides at Edinburgh Castle – Neos Kosmos
- Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) | Scientific Reports
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a major wind, an abundance of grain, but a shortage of other crops.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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